Door-hinge.



J. R. FLETCHER.

DOOR HINGE.

APPLICATION FILED 13110.23. 1910.

Patented May 28, 1912.

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JAMES R. FLETCHER, on NEW BRITAIN,

HARDWARE CORPORATION, CONNECTICUT.

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN OFNEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF DOOR-HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 28,1912.

Application filed December 23, 1910. Serial No. 598,995.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMns R. a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, Hartford county, State of Connecticut, have invented certain. new and useful Improvements in Door-Hinges, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in hinges, and the object thereof is to provide means to prevent, to as great an extent as possible, the wear between adj acent knuckles of the hinge, and to render the relative movement of the knuckles noiseless.

A further object is to provide bearings Within the hinge knuckles for the hinge pintle which shall likewise reduce the wear and furtherrender the hinge noiseless.

With these objects inview, the invention consists in constructions and arrangements of parts, preferred embodiments of which areillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face viewof a hinge embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 22 Fig. 1, the leaves of the hinge being closed.

In the embodiment of my invention illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, 12 indicate the leaves of a hinge, the first having the knuckles 3-33 which cooperate with the knuckles 444: of the leaf 2. Each of the knuckles is providedwith a bushing 5, preferably of wood-fiber. or other suitable fibrous material having wear resisting qualities, which forms bearings for the pintle 6. Between adjacent hinge knuckles is interposed a Washer 7 also preferably of fibrous material, having a shoulder 8 which fits within an annular recess formed preferably at the upper end of each of the knuckles below the first. The bushings 5 serve as anti-friction and sound deadening bearings for the pintle, and the washers 7 perform like functions between the adjacent knuckles. The

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shouldered within the only afford portions 8 of the washers, lying recesses 9 in the .knuokles, not a lengthened bearing for the pintle in the washers, but also maintain said washers properly centered with respect to knuckles, and at the lower end of each knuckle is provided a fibrous washer 16 located in a recess 17 which bears upon a metal washer 18, preferably of steel, seated in a suitable recess in the upper end of the adjacent knuckle whereby anti-friction and noiseless bearing is afforded between the adjacent knuckles. While I have herein shown and described a particular construction and arrangement of part-sand have specified certain materials, it is to be understood that my invention may be altered in detail and arrange ment of parts and as to selection of materials within the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim is:

A hinge embodying a plurality of'knuckles, one of two adjacent knuckle ends having a recess therein, and a washer of fibrous material having a portion seated in said recess and having a flange extending therefrom and separating said adjacent knuckle ends, said washer forming an anti-friction and sound-deadening bearing surface between adjacent knuckles.

JAMES R. FLETCHER. Witnesses:

A. N. ABBn, WM. V. CoLLINs.

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y addressing the Commissioner of Patents, 

